Posted on 07/22/2019 1:52:18 PM PDT by mplc51
JACKSON, Miss. - Authorities say a candidate for the Mississippi state Legislature entered a medical clinic and shot his wife before shooting himself.
Marshall County Sheriff Kenny Dickerson said that Carl Robinson entered Williams Medical Clinic in Potts Camp, Mississippi, and shot LaToya Thompson before fatally shooting himself around 10 a.m. Tuesday.
"Witnesses reported seeing Robinson stomping outside the clinic before going inside the clinic. A .38-caliber hammerless Smith and Wesson pistol was found at the scene of the shooting," Dickerson told the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal.
Thompson died while waiting for a helicopter to transport her to a hospital, the Daily Journal reported. There were no other reports of injuries.
According to Dickerson, divorce papers had been served on Tuesday and the two were fighting over custody of their 3-year-old son, Carl Robinson Jr, WATN-TV reports.
Robinson, 43, was a Democratic candidate for the Mississippi Legislature who worked for the Commission on Aging in Oxford. Thompson, 34, was a receptionist at the Williams Medical Clinic in Potts Camp.
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A revolver is not a pistol? Not being sarcastic; I never heard this before.
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I suspect she had good reasons to want a divorce. But yeah, literally the only upside to this horrible event is, the child didn't witness the murder-suicide.
Not according to old time country folk songs.
Yes, while a revolver may often be described as a pistol, a pistol is a handgun where the chamber is an integral part of the barrel. Semi-auto (or auto) handguns and single-shot handguns are almost always pistols.
Here is the ATF definition:
Sad, that poor kid, God help him.
A striker fired pistol, like the Smith and Wesson M&P, is hammerless. But I agree, it probably was revolver.
You Got That Right. Here's a fine example too....
Down In The Willow GardenHere is a ballad with a death by triple means: poison, stabbing, & drowning. It is overkill........
Apparently, she didn’t like his surname.
How’s his poll numbers, before and after. You never know.
First clue that he was a demonrat: No party ID in the title.
Second clue that he was a demonrat: Wife named “LaToya”.
She appears to have been a little lopsided.
Well of course it was a ‘rat. When you ve gotten through the fifth paragraph of a negative story about a politician and party affiliation hasn’t been mentioned yet, it’s a ‘rat.
Just one of obammy’s people.
Move along, no one cares.
Cause a white devil didn’t do it.
Agreed!
The dreaded hammerless Smith&Wesson.
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